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After 10 years of experiments, physicists finally open the sealed envelope on gravity's biggest mystery

So here's the thing - physicist Stephan Schlamminger at NIST has spent a decade trying to measure big G, the universal gravitational constant that determines how strong gravity really is throughout the universe. The frustrating part is that gravity remains far less precisely known than other fundamental forces of nature, and measurements keep disagreeing with each other in ways scientists can't quite explain. Now, to eliminate the risk of accidentally influencing his own results, Schlamminger had a colleague secretly scramble part of the experimental data and seal the key number in an envelope - which he's finally about to open after years of painstaking analysis. This whole effort might solve one of science's most stubborn puzzles or reveal something completely unexpected about how gravity actually works.
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